WASHINGTON (AP)  The Obama administration's top environmental official in the oil-rich South and Southwest region has resigned after Republicans targeted him over remarks made two years ago when he used the word "crucify" to describe his approach to enforcement.

In a letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson sent Sunday, Al Armendariz says he regrets his words and stresses that they do not reflect his work as administrator of the five-state region including Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.

Adios Al! He’ll probably just go to some academic sinecure where he can complain of being martyred by the right-wing media.

BTW, for a professor he’s not very good on geography and history. He said the Romans went to little towns in Turkey. Turkey as such didn’t exist in the time of the Romans, most of the coast was Greek settlements, and the interior would have been Anatolia.

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posted on 04/30/2012 9:47:51 AM PDT
by Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)

This weasel will prolly go back to Southern Methodist U....he was on leave from there. These commies always have jobs waiting for them either in Gov’t, NGOs, charities, universities. They love to hole up in publicly funded universities and live off the taxpayer ...like Bill Ayers

jimmy kimmel got in his president's face Saturday and joked about this... kimmel is responsible for this person walking the plank. Thanks jimmy... you did something good... you progressive pos. Adam Corolla is a better man than you could ever be jimmy.

It’s sad. America has lost a clown. I laughed loud and long at Al. I hope never to hear of future students laughing him out of his classroom — unless YouTube can catch it, so I can see *and* hear it! But seriously, folks, if B Hussein loses a couple more clowns, he’ll have to take on “Buffoon-In-Chief” as yet another of his major titles.

I know what you mean. Although I have been a voracious reader all my life, particularly history philosophy and geography, I have learned tons in FR these last twelve years, usually through links and references posted by others.

This particular area of your interest is little known by anyone, since ancient history is not all that popular, but your questions are partly addressed in the following book, by our (California) very own Victor Davis Hanson :

Lots of learning there. The Greek civil war which lasted 50 years and was as vicious as our own. The clearer picture of the cradle(s) of Democracy. A grasp of the cultures in Asia Minor and the Eastern Mediterranean, and more about Greek culture that most people learn in a lifetime.

I have reread this book several times and maps are clear and priceless. Just wish there were more of them.

Marxist revolutionaries, who according to their own writings wish through deceit and subterfuge to replace US Constitution with some statist hierarchy, should be hunted down and executed. Every mother’s son of them. No mercy.

This is what they will do to the rest of us when they succeed.

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posted on 04/30/2012 11:36:47 AM PDT
by LucianOfSamasota
(Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)

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